<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:58 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale-request@ale.org">ale-request@ale.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:02:31 -0600<br>
From: JK <<a href="mailto:jknapka@kneuro.net">jknapka@kneuro.net</a>><br>
Subject: [ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system :-(<br>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
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I just upgraded my excellent 9.04 Ubuntu box to 9.10, and now all has<br>
turned to sh*t. X won't start, the screen flickers madly even in<br>
text mode, and the keyboard doesn't work right - it only sees approximately<br>
every fifth key I type. This is just a disaster :-((( (imagine the little<br>
overhead bar meaning "last '(' repeated infinitely").<br>
<br>
Any advice? I can at least log in via ssh, so I can copy /home off<br>
somewhere else and do a fresh install of 9.04. Seems like there should<br>
be an easier way. (I am generally clueless about modern package<br>
management, all I know how to do with apt is "install some_package".<br>
It is a sad state of affairs for a person who first built a 0.90<br>
kernel off floppies in 1992.)<br>
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Very very sad :-(<br>
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-- JK<br>
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PS - WAAAH!<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br>I had the exact same issue last night while trying to switch over to the binary nVidia drivers.<br><br>If I understand correctly, it seems like the X server is constantly crashing and reloading. On mine, the hard drive light was flashing in sync with the screen flicker.<br>
<br>Anyway, I rebooted it, brought it up into recovery mode, did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg out of habit and then ran the .run from the nVidia driver package that I had downloaded after the Ubuntu automated install failed repeatedly. Follow the steps in the .run file and got a beautiful composited desktop on next reboot. <br>
<br>YMMV. <br></div></div>